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RFID Helps Compressor Manufacturer Keep Tabs on Inventory

Global Economic Crisis Demands New Strategies for Managing Global Supply Chains

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Times are Tough--RIR Might Leave More Cash on Your Balance Sheet

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Plugging Into Sensor Networks

Over the next decade, integration of sensor networks will provide a wide variety of real-time data to improve various aspects of business activity and public life-from highway maintenance to healthcare delivery, from energy peaks to emergency services, and from intermodal freight to intelligent transit. Companies that access and leverage these emerging systems and communities early could realize not only a step improvement in supply chain visibility but also enhanced profiles of their mobile customer base.

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Resiliency in Supply Chain Is Key to Long-Term Business Continuity

To improve supply chain resiliency, companies need to include risk considerations in their supply chain network design efforts, sales and operations planning, and inventory planning; on the execution side, they need to improve logistics and transportation management, secure alternative supply chain partners, and ensure proactive alerting process and response management for disruptions.

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Supply Chain Experts View of ERP vs Best-of-Breed

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A Real World Look at Recall Technology in Action

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Focus Is on Return on Assets, Inventory Turns and Revenue Growth

Retailers are making a fundamental shift in the way they do business by creating value networks that coordinate processes and technology to understand, shape and respond more efficiently to consumer demand. Leading supply chain organizations recognize the link between responsive networks and improved supply chain performance.

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Aligning Your Enterprise's Practices With Today's Cash Reality

Using a global inventory approach to "fire your inventory" may be much less disruptive than other cost-savings options your company may be considering.

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Tight Credit Markets? It's Time to Liberate Your Cash

Working capital optimization has always been the least expensive and most readily available form of cash. With tightening credit markets the option of liberating cash from a company's operational processes has moved to the forefront. Inventory optimization presents the second-largest opportunity among the working capital components after trade receivables and ahead of trade payables.

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Closed-Loop Strategies for Distributors and Manufacturers

Only 31 percent of organizations are looking at inventory management as a competitive differentiator versus the rest looking at it as a cost impactor. By adjusting the existing processes to configure a closed-loop inventory management process, organizations can gain significant improvement in customer service levels and reduced inventory carrying costs. The concept of closed-loop inventory management involves seven steps within the process: analyze demand, segment inventory, optimize inventory, replenish inventory, track inventory, manage events, and responsively execute.

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